6
November
Both Jan
and I seem to be getting a lot of porn posted to our Facebook timeline. I had a
sneaky feeling that a lot of it was coming in off the back of one of friends so
I ‘Unfollowed’ him and at I’m not getting more signs of it. Jan however is still
getting it. Seeing as Kile is sitting next to her normally it’s a bit of a pain
trying to get rid of it while he’s looking away. So far she has reported quite
a few users who are posting it, and yet it still keeps on coming through. It
looks to me as if she has a friend or two who been hacked cos they are not so
clued up when it comes to on-line security.
They are
both playing on the Wii right now and the chatter/falling out has started off
already, and they’ve only been at it for ten minutes. I would normally put a CD
on playing through my headphones to cut it down, but for some reason the player
isn’t working. Opps, yes it is, I’ve just tried it again and it’s working fine.
But will I be able to write while it’s on? I shall find out soon enough.
We had
very few fireworks going off around here last night, tonight and tomorrow may
well be different though. Perhaps the weather played a big part last night. Not
that I’m complaining though, I hate the damned the things and the sooner they
are banned the better for me! Some folks might say it’s a tradition that must
continue, but do anything the same way twice and you set a tradition. But in
reality I have two major objections against fireworks.
The first
is, believe it or not, a hate crime issue. Oh yes it is … Think of how the Guy Fawkes
Night began … remember the story? Guy Fawkes and some friends were plotting to
blow-up the king and Parliament because they were Catholics and the Powers That
Be were Protestants. That act of treason on their part lead on to hundreds of
years of persecution of Catholics throughout the UK. Every year we see the
marching season in Ulster and we all tut tut over it; and yet we do pretty much
the same every November 5 we do exactly the same.
The
second reason then is the one about safety I mentioned earlier this week. The
biggest example I can think of is that of smoking. Would smoking have really
have taken off the way it did if we had known about the health issues? I doubt
it. More recently is the thalidomide pill case. Again, I really don’t think it
would have been prescribed so freely if the effects on pregnancy had been
known. Now look to the idea of everyone being allowed to have a fire in their
back garden and let off explosives at the same time. When the sale of the
fireworks was first allowed I very much doubt that the number of burn and maiming
injuries were expected.
Have you
noticed how anti-tory feeling about in the country just lately, while the pro
tory-lobby seems rather quiet. I’ve been wondering why; perhaps it might be
that far too many vulnerable people are now being targeted for cuts. Even with
all the promises of not touching tax credits, they are the main benefit being
faced with cuts. Perhaps now a lot of folk here in the UK have realised that
majority tory government is not the best thing for the UK. I suppose at the
last general election there was little choice really. My one Big Hope has
always been that the tories would become and lost cause, perhaps that time has
now come.
Today’s
photo …
Lovely car, but really a disabled driver/passenger?
Today’s
funny …
A teacher is teaching a class and she sees that Johnny
isn't paying attention, so she asks him, "If there are three ducks sitting
on a fence, and you shoot one, how many are left?" Johnny says,
"None." The teacher asks, "Why?" Johnny says, "Because
the shot scared them all off." The teacher says, "No, two, but I like
how you're thinking." Johnny asks the teacher, "If you see three
women walking out of an ice cream parlour, one is licking her ice cream, one is
sucking her ice cream, and one is biting her ice cream, which one is
married?" The teacher says, "The one sucking her ice cream."
Johnny says, "No, the one with the wedding ring, but I like how you're
thinking!"
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